Napoleon was also the grandmaster of fake news, doctoring u… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Napoleon was also the grandmaster of fake news, doctoring up his "bulletins", misreporting his casualties and those of the enemies, even when he was the winner.

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1 January 1960 in Amioun, Lebanon) is an essayist, epistemologist, researcher, and former practitioner of mathematical finance.

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